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Parts of Speech
Simple Sentences
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Verb Tense and Aspect
Vocabulary
100
How many nouns are in the following sentence: The average hustler and criminal was too uneducated to write a letter
3
100
Change structure of the following sentence so that it is a proper simple sentence: I held up my hand, and I made the letters for "d-o-l-l".
I held up my hand and made the letters for "d-o-l-l".
100
Name the 7 coordinating conjunctions.
For And Nor But Or Yet So (FANBOYS)
100
Choose the correct verb in the following sentence: Then my eyes filled with tears, for I realize/realized what I had done.
realized
100
Which word means the following? To perceive or recognize something.
Discern
200
How many adjectives are in the following sentence: Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way towards the shore and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
7
200
Name the words used to show the subject and verb in the following sentence: The morning after my teacher came she gave me a doll.
she, gave
200
Connect the following simple sentences to create a compound sentence using a coordinating conjunction: Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me for weeks. A deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle.
Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me for weeks, and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle.
200
Choose the correct verb in the following sentence: I became/have become increasingly frustrated at not be/being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote.
became, being
200
Which word means the following? The act of something being caused to change in form, character, or function
Conversion
300
Name the parts of speech for the words in quotes: "Enormous" material benefits have been "bought" "by" China's "economic" boom, "but" the debate is not "about" "these"; it's about family life and "values".
Adjective, verb, preposition, adjective, conjunction, preposition, pronoun, noun
300
Is the following sentence a simple sentence? We walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle.
Yes
300
Connect the following simple sentences to create a compound sentence using a coordinating conjunction. I never got a single reply. The average hustler was too uneducated to write.
I never got a single reply, for the average hustler was too uneducated to write.
300
Fill in the correct form of the verb: She _______________ (learn) much more about the outside world than they have already.
has learned
300
Fill in the blank with the correct word from your module one vocabulary list. She felt _____________ because they wouldn't allow her to join the club.
excluded
400
Name all the adjectives in the sentence below: It was not the cryptic and fantastic English full of attractions and mystery that I loved to listen to, nor the tiresome, repetitious one that sounded like a cart struggling over cobbled streets.
cryptic, fantastic, tiresome, repetitious, cobbled
400
Identify the subject and verb in the following simple sentence: Her repeated attempts had made me frustrated and angry.
(her repeated) attempts, had made
400
Correct the error in the following compound sentence: Someone was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout.
Someone was drawing water, and my teacher placed my hand under the spout.
400
Correct the verb tense error in the following sentence: The English I hear from my grandmother had nothing to do with the English I was taught in kindergarten.
hear----->heard
400
Fill in the blank with the correct word from your module 1 vocabulary list: He decided to take up ______________ with several important people so that he could share and discuss his ideas with them.
correspondence
500
Find the three words in the following sentence that have the wrong parts of speech and correct them. When I final success in making the letters correct, I was flushed with childhood pleasure and pride.
finally, succeeded, correctly
500
Write a simple sentence with the following pattern: S S S + V V V
Answers will vary
500
Write a compound sentence using the coordinating conjunction "nor".
Answers will vary.
500
Correct the 2 verb tense errors in the following sentence: I was 14 years old when I went to the States for the first time and ever since then I understood what it means to live in direct contact with a language through the people who spoke it.
understood---->have understood spoke----> speak
500
Choose the correct word to fill in the blank from your module 1 vocabulary list: Timing was an issue, so he had to choose between going to the concert or the movie; they were happening ______________.
simultaneously